US Plant Patent PP8882
Stagiros
Mini-spray carnation plant named `Stagiros`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 3, 2011. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 29, 2013, but this patent ends 665 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP8882
- Filed
- July 29, 1993
- Granted
- September 6, 1994
- Expires
- October 3, 2011
- Assignee
- STAAVEREN BV
- Inventor
- VAN ANDEL JACOB
Abstract
A new and original variety of mini-spray carnation particularly distinguished by its many bright cyclamen purple flat blossoms of relatively small size, which are borne profusely and intermittently in clusters on erect stems branching from the main stem of an upright bush that has a height of about 100 cm.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive miniature spray carnation plant, substantially as herein shown and described, particularly characterized by its small cyclamen-purple flowers, which are produced profusely in clusters on strong, upright branches of the main stem of a strong, tall, upright bush.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8882 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.